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KOSSOVO , or Kosovo, a vilayet of See also:

European See also:Turkey, comprising the sanjak of See also:Uskub in See also:Macedonia, and the sanjaks of See also:Prizren and Novibazar (q.v.) in See also:northern See also:Albania. Pop. (1905), about 1,100,000; See also:area, 12,700 sq. m. For an See also:account of the See also:physical features of Kossovo, see ALBANIA and MACEDONIA. The inhabitants are chiefly Albanians and Slays, with smaller communities of Greeks, See also:Turks, See also:Vlachs and See also:gipsies. A few See also:good roads See also:traverse the vilayet (see USKUB), and the railway from See also:Salonica northward bifurcates at Uskub, the See also:capital, one See also:branch going to Mitrovitza in Albania, the other to See also:Nish in See also:Servia. Despite the undoubted See also:mineral See also:wealth of the vilayet, the only mines working in 1907 were two chrome mines, at Orasha and Verbeshtitza. In the See also:volume of its agricultural See also:trade, however, Kossovo is unsurpassed by any See also:Turkish See also:province. The exports, See also:worth about £950,000, include livestock, large quantities of See also:grain and See also:fruit, See also:tobacco, vegetables, See also:opium, See also:hemp and skins. See also:Rice is cultivated for See also:local See also:consumption, and sericulture is a growing See also:industry, encouraged by the See also:Administration of the See also:Ottoman See also:Debt. The yearly value of the imports is approximately £1,zoo,000; these include machinery and other manufactured goods, metals, groceries, chemical products and See also:petroleum, which is used in the See also:flour-See also:mills and factories on account of the prohibitive See also:price of See also:coal. There is practically no trade with Adriatic ports; two-thirds of both exports and imports pass through Salonica, the See also:remainder going by See also:rail into Servia.

The See also:

chief towns, Uskub (32,000), Prizren (30,000), Koprulii (22,000), See also:Ishtib [Slay. Slip] (21,000), Novibazar (12,000) and See also:Prishtina (11,000) are described in See also:separate articles. In the See also:middle ages the vilayet formed See also:part of the Servian See also:Empire, its northern districts are still known to the Serbs as Old Servia (Stara Srbiya). The See also:plain of Kossovo (Kossovopolje, " See also:Field of Blackbirds "), a See also:long valley lying See also:west of Prishtina and watered by the Sibnitza, a tributary of the Servian Ibar, is famous in See also:Balkan See also:history and See also:legend as the See also:scene of the See also:battle of Kossovo (1389), in which the See also:power of Servia was destroyed by the Turks.

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